Mastering ChillPig: A Complete User Guide

Most people use about 20% of ChillPig: they type items, they check items off, done. Which is fine — that 20% is genuinely good. But the other 80% is where the app stops being a list and starts being the family member who never forgets anything and never complains about it. Here's the full tour.

The Two-Minute Setup

Hit the big button, name your list, start typing. That's the whole onboarding. There's no wizard with seven screens, no "invite your team to unlock this feature." Type milk and you have a shopping list.

What happens next is the part worth noticing: milk files itself under Dairy & Eggs. Type bananas — Fruits & Vegetables. Type chicken breast — Meat & Seafood. You never assign a category to anything. The list builds itself in store-section order while you brain-dump.

Editing Without the Ceremony

Tap an item's name to edit it in place. Tap the quantity to change it. No edit screens, no modals, no "are you sure?" — just fix the thing and move on.

Made a mess of it? There's an undo. Renamed almond milk to almond mil and saved before you noticed? Undo. ChillPig keeps a stack of your recent edits precisely because thumbs are imprecise and grocery stores are distracting.

Speed-Running the Store

This is where the categories earn their keep. Your list is grouped the way stores are laid out — produce, dairy, meat, pantry — so you walk the store once instead of zigzagging back to aisle 3 for the thing you scrolled past.

And as of this year, the layout is yours to command:

• Drag categories into your store's order. Grab the grip handle () on any category header and drag it up or down — mouse or finger, both work. Your store puts the bakery at the entrance? Bakery goes first. ChillPig remembers.
• Collapse what you're done with. Tap a category header and the whole section folds down to a compact card with a running count. Finished produce? Fold it. Your list shrinks as your cart fills — weirdly satisfying.
• Expand all / Collapse all. One button above the list opens or folds everything at once. Great for the pre-shop overview and the mid-shop focus mode.

Mobile Moves Worth Learning

Three gestures, thirty seconds to learn, permanent quality-of-life upgrade:

• Swipe right on an item to complete it. In the cart, gone from the list, one thumb.
• Swipe left to delete. For when someone adds ice cream x6 to the family list. (You know who you are.)
• Pull down at the top of a list to refresh it.

Say It, Don't Type It

The microphone button takes voice commands. "Add milk to shopping list" while your hands are covered in cookie dough is exactly the use case it was built for. It's also the fastest way to capture an item in the two seconds between noticing you're out of something and forgetting you're out of something.

Shopping Is a Team Sport

Share a list with a link. That's it — the other person opens it and you're both looking at the same live list. When they check off eggs in aisle 5, you see it happen from your couch. When you add "also grab batteries," it appears on their phone before they reach checkout.

This kills the two classic failures of household logistics: the duplicate purchase (two people, two gallons of milk) and the missing item ("you never told me we were out"). The list is the single source of truth, and it updates in real time.

The Weekly Reset

Power users don't rebuild their list every week — they run a loop:

1. Duplicate your staples list every Sunday. The 20 things you always buy are already there; you just add this week's extras.
2. Archive finished lists instead of deleting them. They're out of your way but still there when you need to remember what you bought for last year's birthday party.
3. Export any list to a file for safekeeping — and import it back later if you ever need to restore one.

Total time: about ninety seconds a week. Total mental load: zero, because the system remembers so you don't have to.

You Now Know More Than 95% of Users

Auto-categorization, inline edits with undo, category drag-and-collapse, swipe gestures, voice adds, live sharing, and the weekly reset. That's the whole toolkit. None of it requires a manual — you just have to know it's there. Now you do.